Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better (87 page)

National Labor Relations Board,
222
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23

National Performance Review,
197
,
386

National Railroad Passenger Corporation,
249

National Rifle Association,
315
–
16

National Science Foundation,
215

national security,
18
,
65
–
66
,
68
,
71
,
77
,
180
,
182
,
192
,
330
,
415
; debt and,
12
,
415

National Security Agency,
192
,
325

Neuwirth, Robert,
253

New Deal,
15
,
288
,
410

New England Journal of Medicine
,
360

“New System” and “Old System,”
29

New York Times
,
5
,
146
,
166
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191
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196
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198
,
208
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,
217
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250
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275
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302

Newtown, Connecticut,
85
,
166
,
227

9/11,
2
,
14
,
97
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98
,
137
,
191
,
318
“nirvana fallacy,”
42
,
62

Nivola, Pietro,
84

Nixon, Richard,
35
,
254

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001,
9
,
97
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98
,
176
,
399

Norris, Floyd
208

Noveck, Beth,
382

Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
214

“nudge,”
100
,
158
,
387
,
404
.
See also
Sunstein, Cass

Oakland Project,
231
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35
,
400
,
403
,
411

Obama, Barack,
15
,
46
,
85
,
97
,
153
,
223
,
353
; election of,
345
; No Child Left Behind,
176
; statement on business,
199
; tax expenditures,
172

Obamacare.
See
Affordable Care Act

Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
212
,
215
,
233

O’Connell, Anne Joseph,
71

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
46
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57
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246
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393
,
405

Office of Inspector General, department of defense,
192

Office of Management and Budget,
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71
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78
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154
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192
,
246
,
309
,
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321
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391
,
407

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency,
225

Olsen, Henry,
144

Olson, Mancur,
108
,
136
,
139
,
397
;
The Logic of Collective Action
,
108

Olson, Nina,
294

O’Neill, Dave,
329

O’Neill, June,
329

“optimists” and “realists,”
25
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27

Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network,
190

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,
253
,
320
,
357

Ornstein, Norman,
381

Orszag, Peter,
20

Ostrom, Elinor,
134

parliamentary system,
85
,
94
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121
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311
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12
,
380

partisanship,
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,
5
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6
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7
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12
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13
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20
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68
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71
,
90
,
117
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168
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179
,
217
,
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,
378
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379
; gridlock from,
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party system,
5
,
86

Patashnik, Eric,
20
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53
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187

patent laws,
153
,
180
,
272
,
362

patronage,
175
,
310

Patterson, Orlando,
114

“pay as you go” (“paygo”),
398

Pell grants,
149

“Peltzman effect,”
212
,
244

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
143

pension policy,
25
,
100
,
107
,
109
,
143
,
191
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210
,
258
,
282
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305
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371
,
404

Pension Protection Act of 2006,
100

Petri, Tom,
265

Pew Research Center,
96
,
102

Pigouvian taxes,
388

Pildes, Richard,
345
,
348

Pitney, John J.,
217

policy assessment: effectiveness,
20
,
41
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45
; efficiency:
27
,
29
,
44
,
45
,
48
,
50
,
68
; failure,
4
–
7
,
14
,
16
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17
,
54
; functions of,
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68
; inefficiency,
10
,
100
,
147
,
175
,
180
,
248
,
250
,
258
,
261
,
330
,
382
,
403
; look-back (or retrospective),
57
; “metallic laws” of,
21
; microeconomic effects of,
22
; success,
33
; “target efficiency,”
53
–
54
,
260

policy process,
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–
78
; administrative process,
70
–
76
; blame acceptance,
6
; “boundary organizations,”
71
; costs of,
301
; delay by,
302
; effects on policy substance,
303
,
379
; executive agencies,
71
; functions,
64
–
68
; independent agencies,
71
; judicial process,
76
–
77
; lawyers’ use of,
303
; legislative process,
5
,
68
–
69
,
70
; “offices of goodness,”
79
; opportunistic behavior in,
302
; presidency,
71
; rule-making,
285
–
86